{"id":177389,"date":"2025-12-05T23:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177389\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T23:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T23:51:06","slug":"kim-kardashian-name-change-for-keeping-up-with-the-kardashians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/177389\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian Name Change for Keeping Up With the Kardashians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s in a name? That which we call a rose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kim_kardashian\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Kardashian<\/a>, by any other name would smell as sweet.<\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kardashian_news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keeping Up With the Kardashians<\/a> star had different thoughts right before her family\u2019s eponymous TV show launched in October 2007\u2014and decided to change her name for one major reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to always go by Kimberly, until we signed on to do the reality show,\u201d Kim told <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7338510\/kim-kardashian-masterclass-kimmandments-interview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Time<\/a> in an article published Dec. 4. \u201cAnd when I looked at my chyron, Kimberly Kardashian, I said, \u2018I think that&#8217;s so long for people to say.\u2019 And like, \u2018Let&#8217;s just shorten it to Kim.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But while the 45-year-old is now known internationally by her shortened moniker, it still strikes her as strange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s so weird,\u201d she continued, \u201cbecause all my friends from high school and growing up, and my dad, everyone calls me Kimberly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say Kim hasn\u2019t made use of her shorter name, though. In fact, she celebrated the holiday season with her SKIMS shapewear brand\u2014whose name references her own nickname\u2014with a Dec. 4 livestream alongside Snoop Dogg and her mom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kris_jenner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kris Jenner<\/a>, an event they called \u201cKimsmas.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a name? That which we call a rose Kim Kardashian, by any other name would smell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-177389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}